unfortunately there is a mistake in the pattern for "Cornflower Fields"
my quilt that i designed for quiltmaker magazine...

what you may not know...

& i didn't know initially...

is that the person who designs the quilt {and most often makes the quilt} ...is not the person who writes the pattern... this is the case for most of the quilt magazines you read... not just quiltmaker.

this was a hard pill for me to swallow initially because i'm meticulous about how patterns are written... testing them... checking them... heck i even do pattern testing for many other quilt designers!

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Well its a good thing they caught it relatively quickly. And your advice about reading the pattern before making is spot on. I just ran into a similiar problem on a manufacturer's pattern but luckily I was making a practice block before cutting the whole quilt.

So sorry that happened. I can just imagine the feeling of your heart dropping when you found out about the mistake. But if a blip was going to happen, the border is just about the best place for it to be. Cuuuute pattern, by the way :)

As I write patterns too, I understand that mistakes happen and there is nothing you can do about them. You could have 100 eyes look over the pattern and still never find it. We are only human. I'm not sure how I feel about someone else writing a pattern to a quilt that has been designed. Seems kinda odd if you ask me, but I know why they do it.

I can understand how it would be frustrating for you. Thanks for letting us know and keeping making patterns. They are great. I am eager to see the zipper tutorial. My daughter wanted to buy zippers for me last week in the fabric store, and now I will have a reason to let her.

that would be frustrating...i'm a perfectionist and a bit of a control freak...so i'd be totally freaking out...letting someone else write the instructions on something you designed would be hard, but then there's a mistake...at least they caught it quickly....the quilt is beautiful...i picked up a copy of the mag at B&N last weekend!!